Future civil engineering challenges - Skill requirements, new professional profiles and implementation
- Urbanisation, habitat, environment, infrastructure and sustainability are major global challenges of the 21st century. By planning, exploiting of resources, building, and maintaining, civil engineers and relevant adjacent disciplines have been carrying a large responsibility for the existing environmental problems. Civil engineers are responsible for 70% of all material uses in the world, and civil construction has been dominating the growth of the developing world for the next decades, with enormous impact on the global climate as well as the distribution of wealth and quality of living in the world. Today a variety of sustainable construction concepts have been developed and discussed. Recently a UNEP report was published, which provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potentials in the future from a scientific and industrial point of view. Sustainable solutions based on abundantly available resources (pozzolana and clay) or on renewable instead of limited industrialUrbanisation, habitat, environment, infrastructure and sustainability are major global challenges of the 21st century. By planning, exploiting of resources, building, and maintaining, civil engineers and relevant adjacent disciplines have been carrying a large responsibility for the existing environmental problems. Civil engineers are responsible for 70% of all material uses in the world, and civil construction has been dominating the growth of the developing world for the next decades, with enormous impact on the global climate as well as the distribution of wealth and quality of living in the world. Today a variety of sustainable construction concepts have been developed and discussed. Recently a UNEP report was published, which provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges and potentials in the future from a scientific and industrial point of view. Sustainable solutions based on abundantly available resources (pozzolana and clay) or on renewable instead of limited industrial by-products (e.g. agricultural waste ashes) and new construction echnologies do exist. By applying, promoting and developing the implementation of the existing knowledge into real life constructions, civil engineers also hold the key for the mitigation of the global challenges. Using best practice sustainable construction solutions is particularly of highest importance in the developing world, since the implementation at an early stage creates the highest leverage for positive effects.…
Autor*innen: | Wolfram SchmidtORCiD |
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Persönliche Herausgeber*innen: | Nsesheye Susan PriebeORCiD |
Dokumenttyp: | Beitrag zu einem Tagungsband |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Eigenverlag BAM |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Proceedings of the 3rd symposium knowledge exchange for young scientists (KEYS) - Applicable cement and concrete technology for sub-Saharan Africa - International cooperation, innovation, research and capacity building |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2017 |
Verlag: | Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) |
Verlagsort: | Berlin |
Jahrgang/Band: | 3 |
Erste Seite: | 9 |
Letzte Seite: | 14 |
DDC-Klassifikation: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Ingenieurbau |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Cement; Civil Engineering; Concrete; Global engineering; Nano engineered materials; Sustainability |
Veranstaltung: | 3rd Symposium on Knowledge Exchange for Young Scientists (KEYS) |
Veranstaltungsort: | Johannesburg, South Africa |
Beginndatum der Veranstaltung: | 26.6.2017 |
Enddatum der Veranstaltung: | 30.6.2017 |
ISBN: | 978-3-9818270-7-1 |
Zugehöriger Identifikator: | https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41037 |
Bemerkung: | Geburtsname von Priebe, Nsesheye Susan: Msinjili, N. S. - Birth name of Priebe, Nsesheye Susan: Msinjili, N. S. |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 14.07.2017 |
Referierte Publikation: | Nein |